Ready Set Grow Podcast

Ready Set Grow
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Welcome to Ready Set Grow, where we help pastors and church leaders break growth barriers, build healthy teams, and lead thriving churches.Led by Scott and Hunter Wilson, Ready Set Grow equips pastors with proven frameworks like the 5 Shifts and the Middle Method system that create clarity, momentum, and sustainable growth. www.readysetgrowchurch.com

  1. 3d ago ·  Video

    Most Pastors Get This Wrong When Hiring | Ep 46

    Download the Preferred Profile Template here: https://www.readysetgrowchurch.com/preferred-profile Grab the A-Team Workshop replay here: https://www.readysetgrowchurch.com/the-a-team-workshop Your team needs a new hire... but can you actually describe who you're looking for? Most pastors can't. You know you need help. You know the role needs to be filled. But ask what a win actually looks like in that seat, and it gets fuzzy fast. That gap is where bad hires come from. You meet someone likable, your gut says yes, and before you know it you're building the job around the person instead of finding the person for the job. This conversation breaks down the Preferred Profile — the exact framework used to define a role, spot red flags, and know a good fit before the interview ever starts. In this episode: Why you can't find "the right person" until you've defined what you're actually looking for The difference between a church profile and a preferred profile — and why you need both How to set clear expectations for the first 90 days and the first year The six areas of responsibility every role needs, measured with a red-yellow-green standard The red flags that predict a bad hire, and the green flags that predict a great one Why Scott interviews last, and how a team "stoplight" system took his hiring success from 50% to 90% A great hire isn't luck. It's clarity, defined before the interview ever starts.

  2. Aug 19 ·  Video

    6 Keys to a Staff Culture Worth Staying For | Ep 45

    If you want help building a healthy staff culture people want to be a part of for the long haul, learn more about the Ready Set Grow Mastermind: https://www.readysetgrowchurch.com/mastermind Grab the A-Team Workshop replay here: https://www.readysetgrowchurch.com/the-a-team-workshop You poured your heart into someone... and they left anyway. Maybe it wasn't a culture problem. Maybe it was simply what God was calling them to next. Either way, it's worth asking: is your staff culture healthy enough — attractive enough — that your team could stay for the long haul, if that's what the Lord calls them to do? This conversation breaks down six specific, practical keys to building that kind of culture — one that's healthy enough for the right people to stay and grow together, for as long as God has them there. In this episode: Why clear expectations are the foundation of a healthy team cultureHow to give feedback that celebrates wins instead of only flagging problemsWhy valuing your team's input changes how they see themselves — and their workWhat a sustainable schedule actually protects, and it's not just your calendarHow to value your staff as people and family members, not just producersWhy fair pay still matters, even when the culture is strongYou can't decide who the Lord calls to stay. But you can build a culture healthy enough that staying is possible when He does.

  3. Aug 12 ·  Video

    Pastor, This Is Why Your Team's Productivity Has Stalled | Ep 44

    If you want help building systems that bring your team real clarity — not just more activity — learn more about our Ready Set Grow Mastermind here: https://www.readysetgrowchurch.com/mastermind Your team is putting in the hours. Meetings are happening. Task lists are full. And yet growth still feels stuck. That's not an activity problem. It's a productivity problem — and it traces back to clarity, not effort. Most pastors respond to stalled growth by adding more activity: tighter meetings, stricter hours, another app to track who's doing what. But if your team is already working hard, more activity just burns them out without moving you any closer to where you're trying to go. This conversation breaks down the Horizons of Focus — a six-level framework for finding exactly where clarity is breaking down between your church's purpose and what's on your team's to-do list today. In this episode: Why "activity problems" are rare and "productivity problems" are commonThe six levels of clarity, from your church's purpose down to today's next taskHow a "double in three" vision forces real paradigm shifts instead of incremental onesThe difference between an area of responsibility and a projectHow to find the exact level where you — or your team — are stuckWhy alignment, not more meetings, is what creates real momentumA leader's first job isn't to create more activity — it's to bring clarity.

  4. Aug 5 ·  Video

    Pastor, Are You Prepared to Leave? | Ep 43

    If you want to lead with the future already in mind — raising up the leaders who'll carry your church beyond you — learn more about the Ready Set Grow Mastermind: https://www.readysetgrowchurch.com/mastermind You don't have a plan for leaving. Most pastors don't. It feels too far off to think about — until it isn't. And by the time you're ready to hand off the baton, the financial prep, the identity work, and the marriage prep all needed to have started years earlier. Scott Wilson watched his dad's generation get stuck: no money saved, no identity outside the role, no next assignment to move toward. So when it was his turn, he built the system differently — starting in his 20s, decades before anyone was asking him to leave. This conversation breaks down what Scott actually did across three decades to prepare his finances, his identity, and his marriage for the day he'd hand the church to someone else. In this episode: - Why succession has to start decades before you plan to leave - The financial discipline that let him say yes the moment God said "hand it off" - How to separate your identity from your title before it's forced on you - Why 80% of failed successions come down to the spouse - How to build other voices in your church so it isn't dependent on you alone - Grooming a successor without ever naming one out loud There is no true ministry success without succession going well.

  5. Jul 29 ·  Video

    The Key to Knowing Who's Ready to Lead | Ep 42

    If you want a clear, low-risk process for developing and promoting the right leaders on your team, learn more about the Ready Set Grow Mastermind: https://www.readysetgrowchurch.com/mastermind You've got someone on your team who's killing it in their role... and you're wondering if they're actually ready to lead. The hard part isn't spotting talent. It's knowing whether that talent translates into leadership — before you make it official and can't easily undo it. Being a great doer and being a great leader require different skills. There's a real, low-risk way to test which one you're looking at before you ever say a word to them or the team. This conversation breaks down the exact process for knowing if someone's ready to lead — before you announce a title change. In this episode: The key signals that show someone's actually ready to lead, not just good at their jobThe real difference between a great doer and a great leaderHow to run a low-risk behavioral experiment before making it officialThe two qualities every leader needs: respect and relationshipWhy character, competency, time, and trust decide who's readyWhat to do when someone says they feel called to leadJust because someone's killing it in their current role doesn't mean they're ready to lead at the next one.

  6. Jul 22 ·  Video

    The Legalism Trap Most Pastors Fall Into | Ep 41

    If you want help building a personal devotional rhythm that naturally overflows into how you lead and preach, learn more about the Ready Set Grow Mastermind: https://www.readysetgrowchurch.com/mastermind Somewhere along the way, you picked up a rule: your personal Bible study and your sermon prep have to stay separate. Break that rule, and it feels like you're cheating. That rule isn't in Scripture. It's legalism — a man-made line dressed up as spiritual discipline. If you've ever felt guilty for preaching straight out of what God is teaching you personally... this conversation is for you. This conversation names the legalism trap that quietly shapes how pastors think about devotion, sermon prep, and rest — and what it looks like to trade the rulebook for an honest relationship with God instead. In this episode: - Why "separate your devotion from your sermon prep" is legalism, not Scripture - How a counselor helped one pastor name — and break — that legalistic pattern - The difference between checking a spiritual box and actually being changed by God - Why authentic overflow beats "Christian TED talks" every time - How to build a personalized Sabbath rhythm that actually works for pastors - What it means to lead as "the lead follower," not just the leader Legalism keeps you checking boxes. Devotion sets you free to actually live it.

  7. Jul 15 ·  Video

    The Key to Fixing Your Meetings Problem | Ep 40

    If you want to build meeting rhythms that actually move your church forward instead of draining your team, learn more about the Ready Set Grow Mastermind: https://www.readysetgrowchurch.com/mastermind Your team has a meeting for that... and another one for the thing the first meeting was supposed to fix. Somewhere along the way, your calendar filled up with meetings nobody remembers agreeing to. Some of them made sense once. Most of them just... stayed. And now every Tuesday feels like maintenance, not momentum. This episode breaks down how to run a full meetings audit — one that tells you exactly which meetings to keep, cut, shrink, or fix. In this episode: Why churches inherit meetings nobody actually needsThe difference between Cycle Rock meetings and Critical Function meetingsThe Add, Subtract, Trim, Fix framework for auditing every recurring meetingThree of the Seven Essentials that make a meeting worth havingWhy shifting from "leading" a meeting to facilitating one changes everythingHow 90-day Cycle Rocks keep your meetings tied to your actual vision instead of traditionHealthy churches don't need more meetings — they need the right ones.

  8. Jul 8 ·  Video

    This One Tool Will Transform Your Staff's Productivity | Ep 39

    If you want to learn more about how to make sustainable progress toward the vision and goals God has given you and your church, you can check out our Ready Set Grow Mastermind here: https://www.readysetgrowchurch.com/mastermind Most church leaders know where they want to go. The mountain is clear. What's not clear is what to do today. So your team shows up, looks at a packed calendar, works hard all week — and somehow the big goals never quite move forward. That's not a motivation problem. It's a system problem. This episode breaks down the Weekly 3 and Daily 3 — a framework that takes your biggest goals and breaks them into clear, finishable steps every single week and every single day. Inside: Why big goals are never accomplished through massive all-nighters — and what actually moves the needle insteadHow to "boss your calendar" instead of letting it boss you — and why most leaders are thinking about their week backwardsThe difference between fuzzy goals and clear ones — and the specific words to stop using (work on, continue, improve, make progress on) and the words to replace them withWhy your most important work should be done before 1pm — and how to structure your day around your energy, not your scheduleThe shutdown ritual that eliminates Sunday-night anxiety and sets your team up to win before the week even startsThree things that happen when your whole team adopts this rhythm: you finish what you start, projects take less time than you think, and you can take on more than you ever thought possibleYou don't need to climb the whole mountain today. You just need to make progress.

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Welcome to Ready Set Grow, where we help pastors and church leaders break growth barriers, build healthy teams, and lead thriving churches.Led by Scott and Hunter Wilson, Ready Set Grow equips pastors with proven frameworks like the 5 Shifts and the Middle Method system that create clarity, momentum, and sustainable growth. www.readysetgrowchurch.com

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    Ready Set Grow
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    46
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